From collection Jake Gillison Collection
LB2016.15.924
Workers quarrying granite at the granite quarry at Clark Island, Maine. This quarry was "on Clark Island, in the town of St. George, about 12 miles south-southwest of Rockland." The owner was the Rodgers Granite Corporation, 271 West 125th Street in New York. The granite from the quarry was reportedly a bluish-medium gray with a fine to medium texture. The Clark Island Quarry opened about 1870. In 1905 the quarry measured 500 by 300 feet and had a maximum depth of 50 feet and an average depth of 25 feet. Transport of the granite was by horse power on a track 900 to 1,200 feet to the wharf. Granite from the Clark Island Quarry was used in the following examples: the post offices in Hartford, Connecticut, and Buffalo, New York; and the Standard Oil Building in New York. https://quarriesandbeyond.org/states/me/me-maine_granite_quarry_list2.html#hallowell "248"
